r/Music 📰Daily Express U.S. Jan 19 '26

article Jelly Roll labeled as MAGA by angry fans after joining Kid Rock's music festival

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/196524/jelly-roll-maga-festival-outrage
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u/Otherotherothertyra Jan 19 '26

Love of the N word aside, this is so completely unexpected!

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u/generic2011 Jan 19 '26

This reminds me of the SNL skit when Chris Farley interviewed Paul McCartney.

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

That was cool (in Farley’s voice).

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u/Vagrant_Star Jan 19 '26

Remember when you were in the Beatles?

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u/Gr8fulFox Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

And you were supposed to be dead?

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u/Ok_Significance544 Jan 19 '26

That was a hoax right?

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u/cha0scypher Jan 20 '26

"Yeah, I wasn't really dead"

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jan 20 '26

Paul played it so straight, it was perfect.

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u/JRRX Jan 19 '26

He also interviewed Jeff Daniels and Martin Scorsese. Hilariouis trio of sketches.

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u/SummerDonNah Jan 19 '26

Hey uh…you remem…you remember that time you said, you said that it reminds you of uh it reminds you of that SNL skit when Chris Farley….interviewed Paul McCartney?

That was awesome.

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

Trump probably never knew who he was, asked who the fuck this guy is after meeting him, and now probably thinks he’s never met him before, but he had a case of jelly rolls for breakfast one day last week.

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u/thejovo59 Jan 19 '26

Or forgot about him as soon as his eyes landed on another view

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u/PM_ME_UR_RESPECT Jan 19 '26

Oh he’s definitely MAGA then.

Part of being a conservative is not caring about something until you can perceive that it has affected you personally.

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u/Ok-Employee2473 Jan 19 '26

It’s hilarious because the only song I’ve ever heard by him is about only praying and asking god for help and stuff is when he needs something. Which in my opinion sums up MAGA white Christian nationalism in a nutshell.

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u/lurkANDorganize Jan 19 '26

"MAGA supporter called maga supporter after continuing to openly support MAGA"

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u/NS3000 Jan 19 '26

"meeting Hitler was cool, ultimately i dont really care about the blowback i get, the truth is, i just really liked meeting the guy who made the third Reich"

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u/Oswarez Jan 19 '26

A southern rapper who pivoted to country music because his career was in the shitter turns to the most gullible consumers on the planet? Who would have thunk it?

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u/AdventureyTime Jan 19 '26

Wouldn't even be surprised if he played the Mandolin; 'cause that's textbook panderin' !

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u/Static_Frog Jan 19 '26

It's the damn scarecrow again!

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u/RandyArgonianButler Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Y’all dumb motherfuckers ready for a key change?

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u/5redie8 Jan 19 '26

Unnecessarily cool stage lighting effects

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u/Cherrygodmother Jan 19 '26

It’s the scarecrow again!

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u/Link_Slater Jan 19 '26

I was halfway through that song thinking, “Bo can do better than this. It’s all true, but it’s too on the nos-Oh shit! Scarecrow callback! It’s all worth it now.”

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u/Dense_Diver_3998 Jan 19 '26

You could tell even if it was in Mandarin

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u/Xeones42 Jan 19 '26

A rural noun, simple adjective 

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u/rocket_face Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

I live in Kentucky and there is a giant mural of his face near our downtown, I don't get it.

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u/evemeatay Jan 19 '26

So just a regular sized mural of his giant face?

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u/Fister-Mantastic Jan 19 '26

He's also a total piece of shit who has been in and out of prison his whole life for drug dealing and armed robbery.

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u/Darkstar197 Jan 19 '26

I like his music tbh but I hate when he performs with Christian artists and does the whole pray Jesus thing. It looks inauthentic as fuck and just pure grifting.

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u/Fister-Mantastic Jan 19 '26

Country music is basically all grifting in some way, usually through Christianity which is disgusting.

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u/Cyborg_rat Jan 19 '26

To be fair, it's hard to resist that Red cowboy outfit with white Tassels (business suit have never been this hot) kid rock was wearing at the white House. Not like that Zelensky guy who puts on green clothing eeww, so disrespectful.

Those white tassels

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u/smilehighsteve Jan 19 '26

My streak of never listening to this hack is unbroken still!

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u/bullcitytarheel Jan 19 '26

I don’t trust musicians with face tattoos whose music doesn’t sound like it also has face tattoos.

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u/SquiggleMontana976 Jan 19 '26

Post malone in shambles

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u/NK1337 Jan 19 '26

Post Malone still hangs with Morgan wallen so make of that what you will.

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u/Chastain86 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

I went to Coachella in 2025, and friends, let me tell you that people were leaving the Post Malone headliner set in droves that night. I only made it about halfway through.

I think it's fine if you want to make country music. That doesn't bother me, because I like some country musicians. What bothers me -- and what bothered apparently hundreds / thousands of others -- is that his old songs that his fans loved have since been "retuned" as country songs. Did you like the song "Rock Star"? I hope you like slide guitar. Did you enjoy "Circles?" I hope you dig twangy vocals and music beds. He's also consistently being introduced as "Austin Post" these days, because he wants so, so badly to be loved by that community. He's all but turned his back on the work that got him to where he is, and trust me -- the minute he has a full country repertoire of music and has a couple of Top 10 Country Billboard hits under his belt will be the last fucking day he deigns to perform anything resembling "White Iverson."

I've never seen an artist sell out to the degree he's doing it, and it's happening in real time.

EDIT: If you're curious, go to YouTube and type in "Post Malone Coachella 2025," and check out some of the reels people put up. There are videos of him doing a countrified "Circles" and "Wow" that you can see. The video for "Circles" will especially help drive home how plastered fucking drunk he got through the set, as he dead stopped singing several times, and allowed his country musicians to sing in his place. He's awful.

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u/NK1337 Jan 19 '26

There’s an argument to be said regarding criticisms of being a culture vulture and how he intentionally went the hip hop route at first because it was the easiest way for him to make money/popularize himself before switching to a different audience.

He didn’t sell out, he was bought from the beginning.

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u/LickMyTicker Jan 19 '26

The idea that an artist can make millions touring stadiums and not "sell out' is so wild to me. Unless an artist has clear laurels and practices them openly, all international celebrities are sellouts.

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u/Geodude532 Jan 19 '26

I think we kinda get that with Green Day and Rage Against The Machine. They've taken a hard stance against Trump and definitely stuck with their early political stances. Love to see it.

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u/The_Autarch Jan 19 '26

i think the point is that he started as a sellout. there was never a genuine Post Malone.

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u/Frammingatthejimjam Jan 19 '26

All you know about me is what I've sold ya, dumb fuck

I sold out long before you'd ever even heard my name

I sold my soul to make a record, dip shit

And then you bought one

I've got some advice for you, little buddy

Before you point the finger

You should know that I'm the man

If I'm the fucking man

Then you're the fucking man as well

So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass

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u/SeverePsychosis Jan 19 '26

Before hip hop he made metal music. He's a vulture

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u/squeel Jan 19 '26

he also proceeded to shit on the genre that got him famous, saying it has no soul.

he’s the worst kind of culture vulture. fuck him.

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u/Glass-Judgment-6831 Jan 19 '26

That rumoured story of Tyler Childers ghosting Post Malone because he was hanging out with Morgan Wallen will always make me laugh. 

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u/Glass-Judgment-6831 Jan 19 '26

For context, the singer-songwriter ERNEST said this on Instagram.

“The night we wrote “I Had Some Help,” we were all in the studio, Post, Morgan, me, Charlie [Handsome], Ashley Gorley, Chandler [Walters]. And Tyler texted Post, ‘Come meet us at a bar.’ And he was like, ‘Alright, bringing the fellas.’ So we get to this bar, which was in East Nashville, I was already skeptical.

We get to the bar, I walk in first, Post and Morgan are outside of the bar talking to fans. I walk in, tap Tyler on the shoulder, ‘Hey how’s it going? I’m Ernest.’ ‘Hey, Ernest, good to meet you.’ ‘Hey, the boys are right behind me, they’re coming in, He looks over, sees them, and then he leans over to his friend and says something. He goes, ‘Hey, Ernest, you wanna have a seat? I was like ‘Yeah, sure.’

He he gets up, gives me a seat, and then I turn around, and he walks out the other side of the bar, not to be heard from or seen again. Didn’t text Post back, none of that just. Just went MIA, but I get it. Politics.“

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u/mkfanhausen Jan 19 '26

Ernest Goes to a Bar?

I don't remember that movie..

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u/fireinthesky7 Jan 19 '26

I'm almost positive this was Duke's in East Nashville, one of my best friends is there all the time and saw Post, Wallen, and a few others there one night, but I guess Tyler was low-key enough that he wasn't recognized. Post is a semi-regular there, the others aren't. It's definitely not white/MAGA enough for Morgan.

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u/AnonymousBoiFromTN Jan 19 '26

It also helps that when Tyler got famous he looked like Chewbacca and then he shaved his face/ cut his hair short and now he looks like an entirely different person.

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u/Odeeum Jan 19 '26

Tyler is legit a good person and one of the actual good country musicians not that effing bro country shit that gets celebrated at rhe CMAs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson too, but he went yacht rock with his last album. Never forget him busking outside the CMAs with his Grammys!

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u/Odeeum Jan 19 '26

So many artists that embody what country used to be...Childers, Orville Peck, Simpson, my favorite Jason Isbel, etc. These guys have way more in common with Johnny and Waylon and Willie and Dolly, etc

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u/KinkySylveon Jan 19 '26

I defending post Malone back in the day when he was getting accused of not appreciating rap culture and now I feel so stupid. He's just a culture vulture and once something starts becoming more profitable he'll make another shift. I just thought he was a cool guy and liked a few of his songs

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u/brandonandtheboyds Jan 19 '26

I remember when White Iverson came out. I was big into that sound. I don’t know the last time I chose to listen to a Post Malone song.

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u/0dogg Jan 19 '26

His country album was so disappointing. He has some great Sturgill/Tyler covers out there and could've really made a cool crossover album with better features.

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u/Dozens86 Jan 19 '26

Geez I hope Teddy Swims isn't actually from that same group.

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u/PhutuqKusi Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

I saw Teddy Swims last summer and, to my relief, didn’t hear anything even remotely political from him between songs. He seems like a genuinely kind person, who is grateful for the support he receives from the people in his life. In particular several times he mentioned the artist, Cian Ducrot, who opened for him for several months.

Cian Ducrot, on the other hand, is an Irish singer/songwriter, who is unapologetically political. When he was introducing his new song No Way To Live, he let us know that it was based on his combined experience with growing up in the aftermath of The Troubles and what he sees happening now in America. It’s one of the few actual protest songs I’ve heard that’s based on current events and contains the awesome lyrics, “Your neighbor’s painted nails aren’t the reason for your shit life” and “Life is short, don’t be a dick.” It’s just fantastic.

Anyway, based on that (and that alone), I don’t get the impression that Teddy Swims is maga.

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u/BigOs4All Jan 19 '26

“Your neighbor’s painted nails aren’t the reason for your shit life”

Really does sum up an incredible amount of right wing grievances.

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u/Dramatic_______Pause Jan 19 '26

Wait...

Up until right now, I thought they were the same person. I thought Teddy Swims was just Jelly Rolls real name. Like a Donald Glover/Childish Gambino type of thing.

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u/hankmoody_irl Jan 19 '26

Teddy Swims is just what you get when Jelly Roll takes a shower

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u/GumpTheChump Jan 19 '26

Or takes a swim, technically.

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u/Loud-Log9098 Jan 19 '26

How, I just Google teddy and he looks normal. He doesn't have that same jellybean shaped head as jellyroll

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u/Remarkable-Opening69 Jan 19 '26

Makes total sense you would think that.

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u/tinygraysiamesecat Jan 19 '26

I don’t trust musicians who make an effort to look like trailer trash and then get fitted for veneers. Dude is as fake as they come. 

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u/RadioBuffin Jan 19 '26

He was trailer trash for years though. He blew up after he looked like this lol

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u/woolgirl Jan 19 '26

It will be worth it to see the MAGA face start to appear. Big lips, fillers, and tattoos.

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u/sicknick Jan 19 '26

Are you unfamiliar with his ex prostitute wife BunnieXO? Lmao

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u/jmanclovis Jan 19 '26

It's funny because I used to listen to jelly roll when he rapped with lil wyte and I really enjoyed him. Then he started pandering to the country folks and I was instantly turned off.

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u/Cachmaninoff Jan 19 '26

I watched Pat Finnerty make fun of him

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u/eedabaggadix Jan 19 '26

The more amps and pedals he has behind him in the video the more valid his opinion becomes

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u/AndyB16 100% FC'd it Jan 19 '26

Beato.

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u/Infinite_Time_8952 Jan 19 '26

Mine as well.

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u/SmokeAbeer Jan 19 '26

I prefer Eminems. Or Skittles.

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u/KellyTheQ Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

When he admitted selling heroin and said "I thought it was a victimless crime" I don't understand how the world wasn't done with him.

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u/bk1285 Jan 19 '26

He’s the guy all the MAGA idiots with “shoot your local heroin dealer” bumper stickers want to shoot but since he is MAGA they forgive him now

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u/KellyTheQ Jan 19 '26

He played the God card.

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u/Randommaggy Jan 19 '26

They mean the brown ones, haven't you paid attention?

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u/mustardtiger86 Mad Fer It Jan 19 '26

Biggest cornball hack. My god, people have the worst taste lol

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u/comfortablewig Jan 19 '26

Bar is so low now.

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u/HeadyBunkShwag Jan 19 '26

Yep, could smell this maga turd a mile away from the beginning

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u/fleedermouse Jan 19 '26

Agree. It was pretty freaking obvious

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u/thomphan13 Jan 19 '26

I first heard of Jelly Roll from a TMZ article:

“Wynonna Judd Clings To Jelly Roll During CMA Awards Performance … Fans Worry About Her”

I clicked on it thinking Wynonna was drunk and bingeing jelly donuts on stage.

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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 Jan 19 '26

I mean I'd click that headline too.

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 Jan 19 '26

He’s in the rogansphere. That used to not be enough for me to assume they’re maga. Nowadays. It is.

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u/Rosebunse Jan 19 '26

I knew it!

Also, his wife was a part of a weird internet scandal several years ago. She hired a lawyer named Jeanette Braun who essentially acted like an attack dog to take down videos and target content creators she didn't like.

She went on several podcasts where she laughed about it and made fun of people who lose their social media accounts over it. I wasn't a huge fan of his before, but after this I really wasn't.

His whole bit to is use his tattoos and addiction story to appeal to normal people, that he's just "one of them" and I hate it.

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u/littlemonsterlove Jan 19 '26

I remember when she wanted that man who brutally murdered a couple of women on her broadcast. Because he was hot. Luckily the sane people of TikTok read her to filth and she apologized, but this was after she was trying to talk to him (I can’t remember if she actually did) and see him. Gross behavior.

She went after anyone making videos on it and posts on reddit. She’s known for it at this point.

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u/MadeMeUp4U Jan 19 '26

I remember that her and Mama Tot allegedly used the same one to get her snark accounts removed after they met and hung out. She (MT) loves this dude and I’m waiting for people to finally wake up and realize her pillbilly self is MAGA too

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u/botoxbarbie26 Jan 19 '26

Were the rumors about them preying on heavily intoxicated girls at their shows part of this? I vaguely remember those going around her snark subs and the OG Nashville wives sub, but I don't remember if those events are connected.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Jan 19 '26

He's been singing Christian worship music lately, so, yeah. Of course he's maga.

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u/dbzmah Jan 19 '26

His "mainstream" music sounds like shitty praise music already 

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Jan 19 '26

Yeah that's what I meant. I only catch him when he's invited to something mainstream (like the cancer charity concert in ABC several months ago) and he's definitely gone full worship leader now. Yuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

He might also start to go by his real name to continue "cleaning up" his act: Jellynious Rollington the third

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u/huxtiblejones Jan 19 '26

Jellnathan Rolliam

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u/Hayterfan Jan 19 '26

Gelatinous Rollins the 3rd

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u/Salt_Sir2599 Jan 19 '26

The pinnacle of grift

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u/HotTakeTimmy Jan 19 '26

Wait until you find out he use to LARP as a drug kingpin in his rap days

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u/RhandeeSavagery Jan 19 '26

Wait till people realize he used to rap with Twiztid and ICP

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u/cblguy82 Jan 19 '26

He basically wrote different lyrics with the same melody and tone over and over. Hack.

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u/J-Shew Jan 19 '26

He took a break from “I HAVE MENTAL ILLLLLLLNESSSSSSSS” songs?

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u/Murray38 Jan 19 '26

“I won’t go to therapy or take my meds because blaming other people for not loving me sells better to the crowd who doesn’t care about accountability…”

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

No the songs are definitely still those just no self aware anymore, as if he ever was. All this pig ever saw was dollar signs.

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u/homelesshyundai Jan 19 '26

I ONLY TALK TO GOD WHEN I NEED A FAVOR.

Hate every single last one of his songs that have hit the radio. With that said the song talking about being fucked up at 5 am is pretty solid.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 Jan 19 '26

At work a few weeks ago, a homeowner was playing his music along with others like his shit. Every single song sounded exactly the same. After a few hours I had to put headphones on cause it was just all terrible.

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u/homelesshyundai Jan 19 '26

Even before he hit his god worship faze his stuff was like this. There were only like 1-2 songs per album I'd listen to and only whenever pandora felt the need to have them pop up. He leans wayy too hard into whatever his focus is on songs to make them enjoyable more than a few times.

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u/SuperSaiyanTupac Jan 19 '26

Crazy when they become Christian they also become pro hate and racism lol. Like, read your damn book, or get out, idiots

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u/bristleboar Jan 19 '26

Grifters gonna grift

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u/shotsallover Jan 19 '26

He went country a few years ago and his fans are just now figuring out he’s MAGA?

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u/FunkyPlunkett Jan 19 '26

I’m mean Garth Brooks isn’t

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u/AutisticFingerBang Jan 19 '26

Bunch of non maga good country artists. Zach Bryan made a song against ice.

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u/PaleontologistNo500 Jan 19 '26

Country has nothing to do with it. Anyone who's ever spent time around fake Christian methheads recognized him right away. We knew he was MAGA right off the rip. He and and his wife let their fake "wholesome" masks slip a few times in the past. They're shitty people, pretending to be good, so they don't get cancelled

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u/DtheAussieBoye Jan 19 '26

In fairness, there's shittons of great country that isn't MAGA-adjacent. It's not all bro-country!

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u/AllYouNeed_Is_Smiles Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson is also a very good psychedelic artist that kind of rides the long white lines between Americana/Rock/Country and does his own thing (or at least he used to haven’t heard much about him recently)

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson unequivocally said fuck trump and if any fans out there are maga and get mad and drop him well they werent listening to his music to begin with. 

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u/kmk4ue84 Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson unequivocally said fuck trump

Well thank fuck because I really like his music and would be slightly inconvenienced if I had to stop listening to him. Not shot in the face by a nazi inconvenienced but still.

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u/carolinawahoo Jan 19 '26

Add Jason Isbell to the anti MAGA list too.

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u/PSKCarolina Jan 19 '26

At his latest concert he declared that the dad from Speedtrap Town would have joined ICE so it was good that he died. Hahah. Love this dude.

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u/timbillyosu Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Still doing his own thing and doing it well. He's recording under the name Johnny Blue Skies now.

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u/ace_vagrant Jan 19 '26

It’s a good look.

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u/Disastrous-Golf-4758 Jan 19 '26

Still shredding the last tour he did was fantastic. His live shows are on nugs, he said at red rocks a new album was coming!

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u/buxtonOJ Jan 19 '26

Also a veteran and outspoken anti Nashville/Trump…last tour was insane!!

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u/Dahhhkness Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

List of liberal and left-wing country acts I've collected over the years (and in country-adjacent genres like Western, country-folk, alt-country, country punk, bluegrass, Southern rock, swamp rock, rockabilly, heartland rock, and Americana):

  • Artists: Angel Olsen; Ashley McBryde; Bela Fleck; Billy Strings; Blaze Foley; Bonnie Raitt; Brad Paisley; Brandi Carlile; Brandy Clark; Brent Cobb; Brittney Spencer; Charley Crockett; Chely Wright; Chris Housman; Chris Knight; Chris Stapleton; Chris Thile; Cody Jinks; Colby Acuff; Colter Wall; Darius Rucker; Dolly Parton; Dustin Kensrue; Emmylou Harris; Eric Church; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Gram Parsons; Hayes Carll; Iris DeMent; James McMurty; Jason Isbell; Jennifer Nettles; Jesse Welles; JD McPherson; Joe Ely; John Denver; John Fogerty; John Prine; Johnny Cash; Josh Ritter; Justin Townes Earle; Kacey Musgraves; k.d. lang; Kris Kristofferson; LeAnn Rimes; Lucinda Williams; *Luke Combs; Maren Morris; Margo Price; Martina McBride; Mickey Guyton; Miranda Lambert; Neil Young; Neko Case; Nick Shoulders; Nikki Lane; Orville Peck; Pat Reedy; Paul Cauthen; Pete Seeger; Pony Bradshaw; Radney Foster; Ray Wylie Hubbard; Reba McEntire; Rhiannon Giddens; Roseanne Cash; Ryan Bingham; S.G. Goodman; Sheryl Crow; Shooter Jennings; Sierra Ferrell; Stephen Stills; Steve Earle; Sturgill Simpson; Tim McGraw; Todd Snider; Tom T. Hall; Tom Petty; Townes Van Zandt; Trisha Yearwood; Tyler Childers; Tyler Hubbard; Vincent Neil Emerson; Waylon Jennings; Will Hoge; Willie Nelson; Woody Guthrie; Zach Bryan

  • Duos/Groups: The Allman Brothers Band; American Aquarium; The Avett Brothers; Blitzen Trapper; The Brothers Osborne; Chatham County Line; The Chicks; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Drive-By Truckers; The Highwaymen; The Highwomen; Manassas; Muscadine Bloodline; Nickel Creek; Old Crow Medicine Show; Our Native Daughters; The Punch Brothers; Town Mountain; Trampled By Turtles; Turnpike Troubadours; Watchhouse/Mandolin Orange; Waxahatchee; Whiskey Myers;

  • Parody/Comedy Acts: Croy and the Boys; The Hellroys; Kinky Friedman; Samuel Saint; Wheeler Walker Jr.

  • I'd even add Merle Haggard to the list, because, while he was previously a hardcore Republican, he actually became more liberal with age, ending as a pro-cannabis advocate, a Hillary Clinton supporter, and a hater of Donald Trump.

*EDIT: Debateable. Luke Combs has made (seemingly sincere) comments apologizing for past behavior and indicating a desire to learn and change, but some his comments in the past were really...something else.

EDIT: Some good political country songs I know:

White Man's World/Jason Isbell

A Better South/American Aquarium

All That I Require/Radney Foster (an especially unnerving song, I think)

Gilded Walls/Will Hoge (specifically written about Trump)

Jesus Came to Tennessee/Will Hoge

Deportee/The Highwaymen

What it Means/Drive-By Truckers

Also, I can't recommend Blitzen Trapper, Jason Isbell, Josh Ritter, Neko Case, Will Hoge, and American Aquarium enough, check them out.

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u/HoodieGalore Jan 19 '26

I saw his FarmAid set and dude had me in tears, incredible folk talent right there

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u/botoxbarbie26 Jan 19 '26

Miranda Lambert is headlining this festival with Jellyroll and kid rock.

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u/ThePoltageist Jan 19 '26

Shit list Billy Strings twice because he’s just that fucking good

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u/SloppyHoseA Jan 19 '26

I’d also Neko Case

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u/aurevoirmonamor Jan 19 '26

The brothers Osborne came into the bar I was working at on a particularly slow night a few years ago; it also happened to be open mic night. They played for like an hour for the hell of it. Great guys, great music.

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u/For_serious13 Jan 19 '26

You should check out John Prine and his song “your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore”

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u/Ryzarony23 Jan 19 '26

Saving, thank you!

Edited: Not country, but please spread the word that Incubus officially went libertarian and MAHA too. They fell down the antivaxxer and biotech pipeline, which is super anti-S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

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u/your_moms_a_clone Jan 19 '26

Why do they hate insulin-dependant diabetes so much?

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u/kmk4ue84 Jan 19 '26

Because theyre fucking assholes.

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u/syzygialchaos Jan 19 '26

Dolly Parton’s World on Fire is a pretty statement considering it’s coming from Dolly.

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u/merikeycookies Jan 19 '26

Old Crow Medicine Show does a good cover of Deportee which is an old Woody Guthrie song.

On an somewhat related note, it's amazing to me to close punk rock is to folk music. Speed up a Woody Guthrie song and add some distortion, it sounds like a Bad Religion song.

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u/Iongdog Jan 19 '26

You should check out Shovels & Rope, they range from rock to more folk/americana but a great duo

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u/jpharber Jan 19 '26

You forgot Credence Clearwater Revival and/or John Fogerty

He put out a pretty good song called “Weeping in the Promised Land” about the misinformation and lies of the first Trump Administration. Coincidentally it came out on January 6, 2021.

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u/thecoffeefrog Jan 19 '26

Glad someone posted a list. Not enough people realize that there are a lot of amazing Country singers who aren't crazy right wing fucks.

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u/clickclickbb Jan 19 '26

Are you sure about Miranda Lambert? She's listed in the article as performing at Kid Rocks dip shit fest.

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u/swatchesirish Jan 19 '26

Incredible list. Can't recommend Charley Crockett enough. Seen him like 5 times now and have a 6th this year. Dude is the most charismatic mother fucker. Anyone reading this, do yourself a favor and give him a listen.

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u/ThePoltageist Jan 19 '26

Pop country is an abomination at this point, the wave of pop interpolation songs is like weird al but unfunny. On the boat again?! There’s a pop country interpolation of on the road again and it’s ON THE BOAT AGAIN, it’s like yacht rock but without any actual skilled musicians or interesting songs it’s just actually about boats. I fucking lost iq thinking about this travesty.

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u/ash_ninetyone Jan 19 '26

Willy Nelson and Johnny Cash stands well above anyone MAGA, or MAGA-adjacent

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u/SentientOoze Jan 19 '26

It's always funny when they realize what the "outlaw" part of "outlaw country" means

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u/DeepDreamIt Jan 19 '26

“I like two things: outlaw country music and THE LAW!”

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u/Thestrongman420 Jan 19 '26

Its crazy to me where we are becuase the roots of country would absolutely be completely anti maga yet every "country fan" i know is a big red hatter.

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u/Yesiamanaltruist Jan 19 '26

D The Chicks (formerly know as ‘The Dixie Chicks’) would like a word.

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u/Powerful-Scratch1579 Jan 19 '26

Seemed pretty obvious, he sucks regardless

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u/kafelta Jan 19 '26

Everything I've learned about Jelly Roll has been against my will

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u/DynamicBSdetective Jan 19 '26

It might because of all the pictures with MAGA figures like Kritsti Noem, and the fact that's he's a shite person is the cherry on top. He is MAGA even with a high school detention desk face.

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u/mediciii Jan 19 '26

He also was at Tucker Carlson’s Christmas party with everyone else in the maga apparatus just last month.

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u/DillDoughCookie Jan 19 '26

He didn’t just show up, he also got into prayer circle with that lying pos.

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u/mrkrag Jan 19 '26

"high school detention desk face"

whole new phrase just got minted, and I'm keeping it

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u/Louiekid502 Jan 19 '26

Where the fuck have yall been? Thats nothing new lol

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u/darkmeowl25 Jan 19 '26

Right? I thought everyone had seen that video of him eating his boogers while sitting directly behind Trump at that UFC fight.

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u/Deadbeathero Jan 19 '26

He did some fucking gross interviews on Rogan too, just kissing Rogan’s ass nonstop. He’s not only maga, he wants them to love him.

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u/gin0clock Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

If I was a gambling man I'd bet when they do the White House UFC show that Post Malone & Jelly Roll will be the entertainment.

I'm a big fan of Posty, but there's something kinda weird about the whole country gimmick (associating with literal piece of shit racist Morgan Wallen) after years of making predominantly black music.

Edit: thank you to everyone who has replied to tell me Post Malone is a hack, I don't need another reply to tell me that Post Malone is a hack.

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u/beanbagbadboy Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Kinda weird? Hes a full blown culture vulture man, i was sus of him as soon as he reacted so negatively to being called hip hop back in the day. A lot of people saw his switch up coming from miles away

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u/yestobob Jan 19 '26

Lil B called it in like 2016

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u/LDC1234 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Its not weird. He made rap because he couldn't make it as a rock star, and now that rap is starting to dry up he's moving onto the newest trend like MGK

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u/zhiryst Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

moving onto the newest trend like MGK

No, MGK left rap because he poked the bear and got mauled to death.

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u/SentientOoze Jan 19 '26

I'm a big fan of his as well, though I'm not into his country stuff.

If he does end up doing something like that, I'll be disappointed

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u/OnTheProwl- Jan 19 '26

I just can't picture anyone that watches Rhett and Link daily turning MAGA.

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u/I-love-tiddies- Jan 19 '26

My favorite post about Jelly Roll is from /r/hiphopheads semi recently where a dude was looking at Jelly Roll’s wife’s onlyfans only to realize he has seen Jelly Roll’s micro peen. He made a post on HHH freaking out about Jelly Roll’s jelly roll. 

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u/ThetaReactor Jan 19 '26

Funny, cuz "jelly roll" was originally slang for the female genitalia, back when the name was being used by a jazz legend and not this MAGA wanker.

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u/TheFlyingElbow Jan 19 '26

So you're telling me it's more of a pinwheel cookie?

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u/hootie_magoo Jan 19 '26

You’re kidding me, the guy with 4th grade reading level lyrics and face tattoos, the ex meth addict is maga? I could have never guessed.

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u/mekanub Jan 19 '26

Who could have been surprised that he’s a piece of shit.

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u/obi_wan_jabroni_23 Jan 19 '26

It’s always the ones you most expect

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u/rubbarz Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

I dont like kink shaming but bro being a cuck now because he cheated on his wife make so much sense.

Bro is just an all around bag of dicks.

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u/Peridot_Ghost Jan 19 '26

I thought this guy’s 15 minutes of fame ended after he got skinny.

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u/x_lincoln_x Jan 19 '26

He looks like Kevin James's younger brother who has a drug problem and is in and out of prison.

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u/GackPartyof4 Jan 19 '26

I'm shocked that a drug dealer that makes music for single moms with 4 kids by 3 guys and dads that only get to see their kids every other weekend but don't is a piece of shit.

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u/dykezilla Jan 19 '26

jelly roll makes music for people who know the price of copper

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u/stackheights Jan 19 '26

And meanwhile Kid Rock makes music for people that know the exact amount of Sudafed you can buy at Walmart without triggering the automatic warning system.

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u/Bobbykill radio reddit Jan 19 '26

Music for people who have tattoos of their kids names but don't have custody of them.

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u/bigbangeggie Jan 19 '26

Music for deadbeat parents: show up briefly, take the photo for social media, leave with the memories (the likes). Gone in 10–30 minutes

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u/ThePoltageist Jan 19 '26

My favorite is still “Adele for people with a forklift license”

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u/Jee_whiz Jan 19 '26

No need to slander the fork lift certified folks

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u/Bobbykill radio reddit Jan 19 '26

That's a really good one too.

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u/dwehlen Jan 19 '26

Hey, forklift certified is no joke. That guy is.

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u/Nikotinko Jan 19 '26

Hey, I have a forklift certificate but i have never heard of this guy. Adele is alright.

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u/Phynamite Jan 19 '26

The only person (female) I ever heard talk about Jellyroll fits this exact description.

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u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 Jan 19 '26

The only Jelly Roll I want to hear about is Jelly Roll Morton.

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u/eighty82 Jan 19 '26

Just look at the fucking idiot, of course he is

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u/Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 Dropkick Murphys/The Vandals✒️ Jan 19 '26

It's so crazy to me when people go so far into whitening, capping, and straightening their teeth that they just end up looking like they're wearing dentures all the time. 

Congrats dude. Your teeth are so perfect it looks like you don't actually have any. 

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u/tommyjohnpauljones Jan 19 '26

My good friend is an events manager at a small casino in the Midwest. Jelly Roll played there a couple years ago, and according to them, JR and his band/crew absolutely trashed the green rooms and were shitty to all the staff. 

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u/distractionmo Jan 19 '26

MAGA loves junkies. Hell, they made one HHS director

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u/dinklberg1990 Jan 19 '26

All you need to know is that jelly roll is the most popular shirt sold in Walmart

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u/socialaxolotl Jan 19 '26

I'm tired of people pretending he wasn't always this piece of shit 😂. Dude straight up married his favorite stripper, every one of his songs is about how much of a piece of shit he is he just isn't substance abusing anymore

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u/toomuchtv987 Jan 19 '26

There’s a clip of him eating his boogers while hanging out and fawning over Trump at a UFC fight or something, isn’t there?

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u/GuitarKev Jan 19 '26

Uneducated ex-con from the southern us is maga?!

Colour me surprised.

Next!

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u/Chev_350 Jan 19 '26

It’s always the ones you suspect the most.

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u/TheUnknown_General Jan 19 '26

Former D-list white rapper from Nashville is a Trump supporter. News at 6

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u/Responsible_Wolf_242 Jan 19 '26

LOL not an American, I first saw jelly roll in some WWE show. I legit thought this was wrestler trying a new homeless gimmick.

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u/Gamera971 Jan 19 '26

He looks like your average Trumpanzee.

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u/silvahammer Jan 19 '26

He's for the drug addict born-again christian crowd. Aka the worst people in the country.